Book Hop and Follow Friday.........!

A Very Big Welcome

Welcome to any visitors who got here through the weekly Book Hop (a Book Party) organised by Jennifer @ Crazy for Books or Follow A Book Blog Friday hosted by Parajunkee's View so that book bloggers can share their blog with other book lovers and also find new blogs to 'follow.' To get involved all you have to do is post your blog link at the bottom of the 'linky list' on Crazy For Books and/or Parajunkee's View, answer the weekly question (for the hop) on your blog and get hopping around and following all the blogs!

Although I did another post earlier about it, I want to say thank you so much to everyone who has stopped by or commented on my blog during the hop, I've found some brilliant blogs and book lovers and I couldn't have done that without your help. I am planning a giveaway soon, which may be for 150 followers now that I have more than 100 so stay tuned!

This weeks Book Hop question is: Do you judge a book by its cover?

My answer: However much we would all like to say that we don't judge a book by its cover, there are occasions when I DO this. The cover is often the first thing and only thing you see when you are browing through book lists on the internet and I'm more likely to click on a book to find out more about it if the cover is striking or jumps out at me. However, if I have heard a lot of good things about a book or have stumbled upon it and like the sound of the synopsis, I wouldn't dismiss it if the cover isn't for me. Also, a few years ago I used to go shopping in a lovely old second hand bookshop to buy Enid Blyton books and often the covers would be very dated or harback books would have lost their paper cover so I had to rely mostly on the blurbs of the books to choose which one to buy. One thing that I find irritating about covers is that authors have no say in their design and this often leads to inconsistencies such as the ginger protagonist having dark brown hair on the cover. Covers are definitley important to me but they are certainly not the only thing that influence my reading choices !


New posts this week, take a look:

100 Followers Thankyou post!
Bookshelf Love
Book review: The Other Countess by Eve Edwards
Waiting on Wednesday: The Contagion by Johanne Dahme
Character Connection: Sophia Stanton Lacey (from The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer)

Coming soon: Insight to my bookshelf

I am currently reading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I hope that you enjoy taking a look round my blog and. I'd love to hear from you, so please feel free to drop me a comment! If you like my blog, please follow, I'd really appreciate it and don't forget to leave a link to your blog in a comment so I can check it out :D

Thank you for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Stephanie <3